Susan Mangigian, Chester County Realtor

  138 Sussex Road is in West Goshen Township.  Enjoy the convenience and amenities of living in a community while also enjoying nature on your own 3-acre property!  Great new price of $575,000, this home has a family room addition with a wonderful mud-room entrance, updated kitchen cabinetry, new...

Who doesn't love pizza?  There are many versions of a good pizza and coming from South Philadelphia, and being of Italian descent, I think I can claim some semblance of being an expert in this area.  My favorite restaurant in the area as I've mentioned ad nauseum is Limoncello.  They have several...

Super Bowl winners in my hometown of Philadelphia today!  What else could I want to be thankful for?    E A G L E S .......Eagles!!! When the Flyers won the Stanley Cup, I was a young teenager and attended the parade.  One of those in my lifetime was more than enough, but I am so happy for the li...

 Simplicity.  Keeping your home simple makes it a pleasure to come home to.  Simple things like a pretty print that reminds you of a valued vacation.  A pillow that reminds you to smile.  Photographs of your favorite people.  When selling your home, a stager will instruct you to de-clutter.  They...

I'm not what anyone would describe as a football fan.  I'll watch it if it's on, but I'd almost always rather be doing something else.  I enjoyed, when the kids were here and my husband had the game on, the raucous shouting and cheering and booing from the man cave.   I'll admit, that I do miss t...

Last week's word was Local and I detailed a lot of my favorite local places.  You can read about them here.A lot of folks in the Philadelphia suburbs refer to Philadelphia as going "downtown".  Philadelphia, the place where I was born raised is a wonderful town, truly up and coming nowadays.  Gro...

One of the definitions of local, according to Merriam-Webster is: of or belong to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.  When I think local, I think about the West Chester area.  Where do you go for dinner locally?  Living in the West Chester area, one of my favorite local s...

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why does this listing only have one photo on the MLS?In today's real estate world, our MLS allows up to 25 photos.  Quantity does not trump quality, however, and there's actually a pretty funny Facebook page devoted to bad MLS photos.  As an agent for ov...

I realize now that's it's Friday, January 5, but between the holiday this week and the fact that yesterday the entire area shut down due to a snowstorm,  I keep thinking it's Saturday!  I have a book called the Daily Stoic and today's (turns out it's tomorrow's)  meditation spoke to me and I post...

There's a Jerry Seinfeld quote that goes like this:"To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement.  To live is to keep moving".To follow that along to a logical conclusion, if you are moving, you are going to be packing.  If you are packing for a move, you're going to need boxes!  Dependi...